This is the second year of our
pilot program, which supports projects whose focus are on reviewing current
challenges and issues shared among Japan and other Asian countries, and
proposing policy recommendations. The primary focus of the program is on
selected countries in South-east Asia and Japan. The program pays special
attention on drawing lessons from existing practices made by local communities,
especially in terms of following points: i) how local communities address the
challenges and find solutions; ii) the role of various stakeholders in those
processes; and iii) policy frameworks and social settings to support such
efforts.

Through this program, we try to
build a new form of partnership among Japan and other Asian countries, based on
empathy shared among peers who face common challenges, instead of conventional
ones such as donor / recipient relationships.

Thematic Areas:

1.Aging Society

§Comparing the ideas and practices of care in
community

§Promoting participation of elderly at local
community

2.Multicultural Society

§Good practices in social inclusion of migrants,
especially those with children

§Vitalization of local community by residents
with various cultural backgrounds

3.Renewable energy practices for sustainable
community development

§National and sub-national analysis of the policy
issue

§Policy frameworks related to the issue

§Analysis and evaluation of existing practices
(both good and failed ones– preferred to be an analysis of various
cases/contexts)

Project Duration:

The duration of projects is
limited to one year, without any extension. All projects need to start on 1st
November, 2014 and finish all activities by 31st October, 2015

Total Funding:

a.Focusing in one of the target countries :
JPY 3,000,000

b.Focusing more than two countries with comparative
nature : JPY 6,000,000

Please note that the maximum amount of funding is based on
the number of target countries,not number of all countries covered in the
project.

Eligibility:

§Potential applicants can be a team or a network
of members from various backgrounds, with a proven record of delivering results
in one of the thematic areas. Priority is given to habitats in these five
target countries-Indonesia,
Japan, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.

§Applicants must have experience in the thematic
areas concerning the target countries.

§Applicants have available human network of
various stakeholders (policy makers, practitioners, researchers, local
communities) in the thematic areas concerning the target countries.